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November 13, 2025

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Wild New “Gyromorph” Materials Could Make Computers Insanely Fast

Nov. 13, 2025 — Researchers engineered “gyromorphs,” a new type of metamaterial that combines liquid-like randomness with large-scale structural patterns to block light from every direction. This innovation solves longstanding limitations in quasicrystal-based ...

Nectar Wars Between Bumble Bees and Invasive Ants Drain the Hive

Nov. 13, 2025 — Bumble bees battling invasive Argentine ants may win individual fights but ultimately lose valuable foraging time, putting pressure on colonies already strained by habitat loss, disease, and pesticides. New research shows bees often avoid ...

Your Anxiety May Be Controlled by Hidden Immune Cells in the Brain

Nov. 13, 2025 — Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that anxiety may be controlled not by neurons but by two dueling groups of immune cells inside the brain. These microglia act like biological pedals—one pushing anxiety forward and the other holding ...

New Study Finds Hidden Diabetes Danger in Vaping

Nov. 13, 2025 — Smoking, vaping, or using both products significantly increases the likelihood of developing prediabetes and diabetes, and the risk is even higher among Hispanic, Black, and low-income groups. Researchers found that vaping alone raises prediabetes ...

New Neanderthal Footprints in Portugal Reveal a Life We Never Expected

Nov. 13, 2025 — Footprints preserved on ancient dunes show Neanderthals actively navigating, hunting, and living along Portugal’s coastline. Their behavior and diet suggest a far more adaptable and socially complex population than once ...

A Radical Upgrade Pushes Quantum Links 200x Farther

Nov. 13, 2025 — Scientists have developed a new way to build rare-earth crystals that boosts quantum coherence to tens of milliseconds. This leap could extend quantum communication distances from city blocks to entire continents. The method uses atom-by-atom ...

Jupiter’s Wild Youth May Have Reshaped the Entire Solar System

Nov. 13, 2025 — Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals formed much later than expected. These late-forming bodies match the ages and chemistry of chondrite meteorites found on Earth. ...

Space Dust Reveals How Fast the Arctic Is Changing

Nov. 13, 2025 — Arctic sea ice is disappearing fast, and scientists have turned to an unexpected cosmic clue—space dust—to uncover how ice has changed over tens of thousands of years. By tracking helium-3–bearing dust trapped (or blocked) by ancient ice, ...

A 400-million-year-old Plant Creates Water so Weird It Looks Alien

Nov. 13, 2025 — Researchers discovered that living horsetails act like natural distillation towers, producing bizarre oxygen isotope signatures more extreme than anything previously recorded on Earth—sometimes resembling meteorite water. By tracing these isotopic ...

Smart Drug Strikes a Hidden RNA Weak Point in Cancer Cells

Nov. 13, 2025 — Researchers have designed a smart drug that hunts down and breaks a little-known RNA that cancer cells depend on. The drug recognizes a unique fold in the RNA and triggers the cell to destroy it. Tests showed that removing this RNA slows cancer ...

Strange Microscopic Structures Found in Long COVID Blood

Nov. 13, 2025 — Scientists have discovered strange microscopic structures in the blood of people with Long COVID—clusters of tiny microclots tangled together with sticky immune webs known as neutrophil extracellular traps, or NETs. These combined structures show ...

Cheap Gout Drug May Slash Heart Attack and Stroke Risk

Nov. 12, 2025 — Colchicine, a cheap and widely used gout drug, may help prevent heart attacks and strokes in people with cardiovascular disease. Trials involving nearly 23,000 patients show meaningful reductions in risk with low doses. Side effects were mostly mild ...

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A Fierce Crocodile Ancestor That Hunted Before Dinosaurs Has Been Found

Nov. 12, 2025 — Scientists have identified a new crocodile precursor that looked deceptively dinosaur-like and hunted with speed and precision. Named Tainrakuasuchus bellator, the armored “warrior” lived 240 ...

Scientists Just Found a Material That Beats Diamond at Its Own Game

Nov. 12, 2025 — Boron arsenide has dethroned diamond as the best heat conductor, thanks to refined crystal purity and improved synthesis methods. This discovery could transform next-generation electronics by ...

A 540-Million-Year-Old Fossil Is Rewriting Evolution

Nov. 12, 2025 — Over 500 million years ago, the Cambrian Period sparked an explosion of skeletal creativity. Salterella, a peculiar fossil, defied conventions by combining two different mineral-building methods. ...

NASA's Webb Finds Life’s Building Blocks Frozen in a Galaxy Next Door

Nov. 12, 2025 — Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a trove of complex organic molecules frozen in ice around a young star in a neighboring galaxy — including the first-ever detection ...

Astronomers Stunned by Three Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting Two Suns

Nov. 12, 2025 — Scientists have identified three Earth-sized planets orbiting two stars in the TOI-2267 system. Remarkably, planets transit around both stars — a first in astronomy. The system’s compact, cold ...

Earth Is Slowly Peeling Its Continents from Below, Fueling Ocean Volcanoes

Nov. 12, 2025 — Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip ...

Scientists Shocked as Bumblebees Learn to Read Simple “Morse Code”

Nov. 12, 2025 — In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists found that bumblebees can tell the difference between short and long light flashes, much like recognizing Morse code. The insects learned which signal led to ...

What Brain Scans Reveal About Soccer Fans’ Passion and Rage

Nov. 11, 2025 — Researchers scanning soccer fans’ brains found that wins trigger bursts of reward activity while losses dampen control signals. The results show how loyalty and rivalry can override logic, turning ...

Entangled Spins Give Diamonds a Quantum Advantage

Nov. 11, 2025 — UC Santa Barbara physicists have engineered entangled spin systems in diamond that surpass classical sensing limits through quantum squeezing. Their breakthrough enables next-generation quantum ...

AI Revives Lost 3,000-Year-Old Babylonian Hymn

Nov. 11, 2025 — Researchers have rediscovered a long-lost Babylonian hymn from 1000 BCE, using artificial intelligence to piece together fragments scattered across the world. The hymn glorifies ancient Babylon’s ...

Brain-Like Learning Found in Bacterial Nanopores

Nov. 11, 2025 — Scientists at EPFL have unraveled the mystery behind why biological nanopores, tiny molecular holes used in both nature and biotechnology, sometimes behave unpredictably. By experimenting with ...

Scientists Uncover a Hidden Universal Law Limiting Life’s Growth

Nov. 11, 2025 — Japanese researchers uncovered a universal rule describing why life’s growth slows despite abundant nutrients. Their “global constraint principle” integrates classic biological laws to show ...

Clearing Brain Plaques Isn’t Enough to Heal Alzheimer’s

Nov. 11, 2025 — Japanese researchers found that lecanemab, an amyloid-clearing drug for Alzheimer’s, does not improve the brain’s waste clearance system in the short term. This implies that nerve damage and ...

Astronomers Just Solved the Mystery of “impossible” Black Holes

Nov. 11, 2025 — New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful magnetic forces act on a collapsing, spinning star, they eject vast amounts of ...

New Research Finds No Clear Link Between Acetaminophen (Tylenol) and Autism

Nov. 10, 2025 — A sweeping review of existing studies finds no solid evidence that using acetaminophen (Tylenol) during pregnancy increases the risk of autism or ADHD in children. Researchers found that previous ...

Archaeologists May Have Finally Solved Peru’s Strange “Band of Holes” Mystery

Nov. 10, 2025 — In Peru’s mysterious Pisco Valley, thousands of perfectly aligned holes known as Monte Sierpe have long puzzled scientists. New drone mapping and microbotanical analysis reveal that these holes may ...

Surprising Heart Study Finds Daily Coffee May Cut AFib Risk by 39%

Nov. 10, 2025 — New research finds that daily coffee drinking may cut AFib risk by nearly 40%, defying decades of medical caution. Scientists discovered that caffeine’s effects on activity, blood pressure, and ...

Warm Ocean Beneath Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus May Be Perfect for Life

Nov. 9, 2025 — NASA’s Cassini mission has revealed surprising heat flow at Enceladus’ north pole, showing the moon releases energy from both ends. This balance of heat could allow its subsurface ocean to remain ...

Meet the Desert Survivor That Grows Faster the Hotter It Gets

Nov. 9, 2025 — In Death Valley’s relentless heat, Tidestromia oblongifolia doesn’t just survive—it thrives. Michigan State University scientists discovered that the plant can quickly adjust its photosynthetic ...

9,000-Year-Old Ice Melt Shows How Fast Antarctica Can Fall Apart

Nov. 9, 2025 — Around 9,000 years ago, East Antarctica went through a dramatic meltdown that was anything but isolated. Scientists have discovered that warm deep ocean water surged beneath the region’s floating ...

MIT Quantum Breakthrough Edges Toward Room-Temp Superconductors

Nov. 8, 2025 — MIT scientists uncovered direct evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene by observing a distinctive V-shaped energy gap. The discovery hints that electron pairing in this ...

Deep-Sea Mining Starves Life in the Ocean’s Twilight Zone

Nov. 8, 2025 — Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” ...

DNA in Seawater Reveals Lost Hammerhead Sharks

Nov. 8, 2025 — A revolutionary eDNA test detects endangered hammerhead sharks using genetic traces left in seawater, eliminating the need to capture or even see them. This powerful tool could finally uncover where ...

Scientists Find Brain Cells That Could Stop Alzheimer’s

Nov. 8, 2025 — Researchers have identified special immune cells in the brain that help slow Alzheimer’s. These microglia work to reduce inflammation and block the spread of harmful proteins. They appear to ...

A 500-Million-Year-Old Brain "radar" Still Shapes How You See

Nov. 8, 2025 — New research shows that the superior colliculus, a primitive brain region, can independently interpret visual information. This challenges long-held beliefs that only the cortex handles such complex ...

Laser Satellites Expose a Secret Antarctic Carbon Burst

Nov. 8, 2025 — A new study shows that the Southern Ocean releases far more carbon dioxide in winter than once thought. By combining laser satellite data with AI analysis, scientists managed to “see” through the ...

Einstein Might Have Been Wrong About Black Holes

Nov. 8, 2025 — Researchers are using black hole shadows to challenge Einstein’s theory of relativity. With new simulations and future ultra-sharp telescope images, they may uncover signs that his famous equations ...

The Hidden “Big Bang” That Decides How Bowel Cancer Grows

Nov. 7, 2025 — Scientists have pinpointed a “Big Bang” moment in bowel cancer—when cells first evade the immune system. This early immune escape locks in how the cancer will behave as it grows. The discovery ...

Mini Llama Proteins Show Promise for Alzheimer’s Treatment

Nov. 6, 2025 — Miniature antibodies from camels and llamas can slip into the brain more easily than conventional drugs, offering a new way to treat disorders like Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia. Researchers say ...

Common Acne Drug May Protect Against Schizophrenia

Nov. 6, 2025 — Scientists have discovered a surprising benefit of the acne drug doxycycline: it may lower the risk of schizophrenia. Teens prescribed the antibiotic were about one-third less likely to develop the ...